Article by David M. Peters
Oftentimes people have older photographs in albums or frames that become damaged by the sun or wear and tear. It is easy to restore these cherished photographs thanks to the technology available through the computer and photo editing software, including Adobe Photoshop.
An easy to learn program is Photoshop Elements. This program contains options that can help restore your old photographs. One of these elements is the Dust and Scratch Filter which can be used to remove the marks, scratches and blots on your old photos. The Dust and Scratch Filter can be found on the Menu Bar and then clicking on the Filter Tab. A drop down menu will list your choices at which point you can choose the Noise tab and click on the Dust and Scratches.
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Posted by Fotodirt at 9:48 pm on December 19th, 2008.
Categories: Tools. Tags: photoshop.
Article by Robert Grazian
Digital photography is a wonderful thing, but soon one ends up with hundreds of pictures, which would be great except they need just a little correction or tweaking. Maybe there are problems with red eye, or the contrast or brightness was not quite right. Few people want to spend 50 to 300 dollars on a photo editing program to deal with these problems. Luckily, there are plenty of free quality photo editing programs out there to choose from.
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Posted by Fotodirt at 8:25 pm on December 9th, 2008.
Categories: Tools.
Article by Susan Schlenger
ome people are just pros at taking great pictures. But most people just take average pictures. If you are one of them, you can edit photos in very easy ways and improve them dramatically.
Sure, you can have a good or great digital camera, adjust the settings as you are supposed to, and even produce a good picture. But sometimes it just doesn’t look quite as good as it could.
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Posted by Fotodirt at 5:58 pm on December 6th, 2008.
Categories: Tools.
Article by Tom Bonner
The RAW versus JPEG controversy has been going on since the dawn of the digital photography. Most professionals and advanced amateur photographers prefer to shoot in RAW, because the RAW format offers some real benefits that JPEG just can’t match. There are times, however, when JPEG can be the better choice.
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Posted by Fotodirt at 9:00 am on December 5th, 2008.
Categories: Tools.
I normally use an older version of Paint Shop Pro (by JASC, before it sold out to Corel) to do my image resizing tasks, and on occasion but to a lesser extent, Adobe Photoshop. But for Web use (image shrinking, usually), it does get to be a pain to go through to the trouble of loading and using either of these… and since I’m not always at my own computer (I’m traveling, say, and don’t have my laptop) and I need to do a decent resize for a blog post, what then?
Easy… do it online. And for free!
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Posted by Fotodirt at 10:46 pm on December 1st, 2008.
Categories: Tools.
This post on Unfocused Brain describes an extremely simple technique that’ll let you easily and quickly do color correction (and, for that matter, light correction), improvement, adjustments, experiments, etc., to your photographs… extremely simple, that is, if you’re armed at least with Adobe Photoshop CS and its “Match Color” tool.
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Posted by Fotodirt at 4:40 pm on November 28th, 2008.
Categories: Technique, Tools. Tags: photoshop.
It’s hard to beat free.
Especially when the freebie does a bang up do-alike imitation of Photoshop Elements’ functionalities!
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Posted by Fotodirt at 8:47 pm on March 5th, 2007.
Categories: Tools.
Needing to fire up resource hog Photoshop when all one wants to do is just resize (more often than not, shrink) an image gets old pretty fast. So I went looking for a simple utility for this “specialized” purpose, maybe something so tiny I could keep it lurking on my Taskbar (or create a Quick Launch icon), keeping it just a fast click away when needed. Like when I create a thumbnail of Pic of the Day images for the site.
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Posted by Fotodirt at 7:40 pm on March 5th, 2007.
Categories: Tools.
BY RAYMOND HORNER
A woman walked into a camera shop to return her recently purchased camera. When the salesperson asked, “Is it broken?†she replied, “No, it just does not do all the things I wanted it to do.†After patient listening, the salesperson asked, “Did you read any of the book that came with the camera?†The woman quickly responded, “NO, I just did not have time and really did not have any desire to do all that reading.â€
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Posted by Fotodirt at 6:28 pm on February 22nd, 2007.
Categories: Equipment, Tools.
Google’s free digital workflow software, Picasa helps you find/manage, edit and share all the photos on your computer.
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Posted by Fotodirt at 11:41 am on January 22nd, 2007.
Categories: Freebies, Tools, Web Watch.
Oftentimes people have older photographs in albums or frames that become damaged by the sun or wear and tear. It is easy to restore these cherished photographs thanks to the technology available through the computer and photo editing software, including Adobe Photoshop.